We Now Know What Caused That Devastating LA Freeway Fire PJ Media

The miracle thanks to Big Stupid Government is that it didn’t happen sooner.

With more than 300,000 vehicles being rerouted each and every day until further notice, frustrated Los Angelenos demanded answers and, on Tuesday, they got one.

“Bad actors” caused the fire, according to State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant.

Some unknown arsonist is believed to have started Saturday’s blaze, but that’s not the “bad actor” to whom Berlant was referring. You see, the city government leases underpass space to people and companies for storage. In this case, “bad actors” filled the underpass with wooden pallets and containers of alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

In my report on Monday (and at the top of this story), you can see the pallets stacked so high under the freeway that they’re almost touching the underside of the elevated road. The photos were courtesy of Google Street View, so it isn’t like the towers of literal kindling were some dark secret.

The city is currently in a legal battle with a company called Airspace that leased the underpass storage area.

Let us pause here to consider the ill-considered wonder of stuffing underpasses full of kindling and flammable goo. Let us pause again to consider the bone-crushing stupidity of allowing unpoliced homeless encampments filled with vagrants, addicts, and the mentally ill to cohabitate with pallets and accelerants. 

via pjmedia.com